The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-04

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REVENUE ARGUMENT, "'
now make this solemn appeal. The
one decisive hour of a, lifetime will occur
next August. 1t is'.a crisis t eight, d
with the veal or woe Of Texas. n You
favor prohb ton, say it. DO not
whisper it with pale lips and bated
breath. hut say II loud. "How long
halt We between two opinions?
The cause needs ouIspoken, courage
Gus help. Your frankness and decls-
ion will encourage the .timid and gain
the wavering. Leave not the battle to
few. Let every father, mother, son
and daughter in Dallas who oppose
whisky and favor prohibition make
known the fact 10 all men. Let not
the trumpet give IN uncertain sound.
BY long continued and arduous exer-
ton, and at grca costs, the
opposing hosts will assemble in
your city with all the
pomp and circumstances of glorious
war;" Their efforts are worthier of a
better cause. They come to capture
North Texas. II they prevail, Texas
will be bound hand and foot by the
direst enemy OF the human race for
many years to come.
That bondage will not be ours alone.
This battle "in the pivotal State is
for all America. Fellow citizens. this
liquor traffic is not liberty. temperance
and patriotism. These are but its
masks, worn for delusion. This traffic
is the antitype Of the yelled prophet OF
to Korassan. 1t is the Mokanna who
does not lit his veil cxceot to tho lost
in the hour of death and ruin. Then
indeed, with unfeigncd and gloating
words it growls through ghostly grin
ming gums the poets words:
! see thou kuowcst me, knowest me well at last
la! hal And so fond things thou thoughtes
| all true,
And that love mankind? ! do do
As victims love them, as the sca-dog dotes
Upon the small sweet fry that round him floats
1 Or as the Nile-brd loves the slime that gives
That rank and venomous food on which Hives
And now thou seest my souls angelic hue, Z.
It's time these features were uncurtaincd too
This brow whose light-oh, rare. celestial light
Hath been reserved TO bless thy favored sight
These dazzling eyes, before whose shroundet
Thou'st seen immortal man kneel down ant
quake,
Would that they were heavens. lightninss fol
Here-judge ifhell, withall It's power to damn
Can add one curse TO the foul thing am.
Well mightthe deludcd and lost ielie@ of Per
s0nal -. -
Liberty shrek out in horror at the mOnstrOu
Thus disclosed; well might she cry:
And |, was the liquor trafc's bridcg
The dead stood round me while 7 spoke tina
Their blue lips echoed it'll hear them now;
Their eyes glAred on me while pledged tina
hos
Twas burning blocd-I feel II in my soul.
And the yelled bridegroom-hist-Pve seen to
night
What angels know not of-so foul sight
So horribe-oh, never mayest thou see
What there lies hid from all but hell and me-
So the devotus of the trailc have seer
in D,spairs last retrospect the unveiled
Mokanna to which they welded theil
souls in the name of personal liberty.
Such sight rs turned their hearts tC
stone and froze the life current in
their veins. Such sight as made
them rave in madness or tremble in
dilirium.
Dreadful Il was to see the ghostly stare.
! The stOncy look of horror and dispair.
| Which some Of these expiring victims cast
| Upon their souls tOmcntcr 20 the last
/ Upon that mocking fcnd, whose veil now RAISED
Showed them as In deaths Agency they
Not the Compromised light the brow who's
Was to come fofib. all conquering, all redeem